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AMA 250GP national champion racer Roland Sands has been taking perfectly good motorcycles and engoodening them further for 20-odd years. Now, he’s turned his attentions to BMW’s giant boxer cruiser, giving the R18 a hardtail dragster treatment.Continue… Continue reading Roland Sands builds a straight-line dragster out of the BMW R18
BMW has announced the production model of its all-electric iX3 crossover, the first consumer car to feature the company’s fifth-generation eDrive electric drivetrain. Thirty percent more power-dense and 20 percent more energy-dense than the previous ve… Continue reading BMW’s all-electric iX3 hits production: A vision of things to come
Based in the US as Hackaday is, it’s easy to overload the news with stories from home. That’s particularly true with dark tales of the expanding surveillance state, which seem to just get worse here on a daily basis. So we’re not exactly sure how we feel to share not …read more
BMW is looking to start standardizing its manufacturing processes, selling cars with options like adaptive cruise, smart headlights and active suspension built in, and then charging car owners on a monthly or yearly subscription model to use them.Conti… Continue reading BMW will start charging by the month for smart cruise and seat heaters
BMW i Ventures, BMW’s hybrid venture firm, announced today it is investing in Prometheus Fuels. The Silicon Valley startup is working on technologies for pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and processing it into carbon-neutral gasoline. The investment w… Continue reading BMW invests in technology to pull gasoline out of the air
BMW has sharpened up its 4-series sports coupé in line with the “grille-o-rama” Concept 4 we saw last year, clearly differentiating it from the more conservative 3-series with a long, lean and ever-so-slightly muscular look featuring the biggest nostri… Continue reading BMW sharpens its 4-series for 2020, and just look at these photos
The X7 is BMW’s big, three-row sport utility and has been the largest offering from the company in terms of family haulers. Often forgotten as the less exciting of the Bimmers, the X7 gets a muscular upgrade in the 2020 M50i model. After a week, we dev… Continue reading Review: 2020 BMW X7 M50i brings muscle to the big Bimmer
Less than a year after blasting onto the stage at the Concorso d’ Eleganza Villa d’ Este in Italy, what began as the Concept R18 has evolved to become a fully-fledged production model. Meet BMW’s big, burly, bare-knuckled Cruiser.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading BMW storms into the cruiser scene with the “Big Boxer” R18
Redesigned for 2020, the BMW X6 fits in the German automaker’s “sports activity vehicle” (SAV) range. Its wagon-like mixture of styling on a crossover-SUV body make it unique. As the third-generation for the X6, the 2020 model gets several good upgrade… Continue reading Review: 2020 BMW X6 doesn’t need the M package for greatness
It appears clear at this stage that while most of the developed world is moving toward battery-electric vehicles, Japan and South Korea are pushing hard for hydrogen, which will allow them to import energy from around the world in a green delivery form… Continue reading BMW hops on Toyota’s hydrogen bandwagon with fuel cell powertrain